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See Legowelt live in Brest Bretagne at Astropolis Winter edition festival this coming Friday and Saturday in Madrid Spain! More info below soon! ********* Legowelt's NIGHTWIND records lined up some cassette tapes this coming late winter/early spring -> cassette version of Sammy Osmo's Schaduw Horizon - cassette version of the LOCH NESS videogame soundtrack called LOCH NESS EXPANDED including new unreleased Commodore 64 tracks - BONTEMPI 666 cassette re-issue - UFOCUS cassette version - Probably doing some CD versions too for the hifi CD freaks collectors - and its all going to be available digitally too - The new Satomi Taniyama album EDEN IN A SEA OF MISERY is coming too somewhere in the spring but a littlebit later like late spring early summer
********* Giallo records - an indie label specialized in releasing soundtracks & Horror disco is going to release a compilation vinyl LP album of previously Strange Life Records CDR only Franz Falckenhaus material. According to the press release: “The obscure, previously CDR only Legowelt side project is full on VHS grained Cold War paranoia! Like if Fulci directed a Bond movie starring Udo Keir and Edwige Fenech. Shades of Fabio Frizzi, Minimal Synth and Aphex Twin. Culled from the three CDs originally released on Strange Life Records, it is with immense pride that we provide this collection for the first time on vinyl, lovingly remastered with exceptional new art by the one and only Eric A. Lee.”*************** Ok thats it for today Laterzzzzzzzzzzzzz ********

12 February 2018

SHADOW WOLF CYBERZINE ISSUE 6

Here is a new special issue of the Shadow Wolf Cyberzine. Number 6 – most of it was made in one Saturday afternoon – on the 10th of February 2018 – at a Shadow Wolf cyberzine workshop seminar in the WORM institute in Rotterdam. Around 20 participants were introduced in Cyberzine culture and ASCII art and embarked on making their own content for the zine.

Some subjects that the participants wrote about: Diabolo in Musica – David Vunk’s International Mayonaise review – MS20 Tinitus sound therapy – The other parallel internet that time forgot – Animistic Belief’s secret family noodle recipe – OPAMPS The building blocks of Synthesizers – Wondrous Worms and lots more!

Saturday 10 February at the Worm Institute For Avant Garde Media Rotterdam – I’ll do a ‘Make Your Own Shadow Wolf Cyberzine’ seminar. From 15:00 till 19:00 me and the participants are going to make a new issue of this e-zine.

Legowelt will give a brief introduction and history on ’cyberpunk’ E-Zines (or Cyberzines), pre internet BBS culture, ASCII art and explain how to come up with ideas, subjects, write articles, make ASCII Art yourself and use the necessary software (SEAMONKEY composer in this case) – then we will put together an entire cyberzine, each of the participants contributing to this new special issue.

E-zines/Cyberzines were mostly ASCII text file based zines that were distributed through telephone modem computer networks and floppy disks before the dawn of the internet – often distributed through BBS’s (Bulletin Board Systems check out this cool documentary on this subject).

These E-zines were text files written by hackers, freaks, nerds, artists, Sci-Fi fans, outcasts, psychotic weirdos, mad dealers and kindred folk, about what was happening in their lives, to reach out to other people with similar interests, lonely people scattered around the world connecting in CYBERSPACE and creating their own micro cultures around their hobbies and beliefs. Most of these e-zines would be about hacking and anarchic subjects. They would have cool names like MAGIK (Master Anarchists Giving Illicit Knowledge) MINDCRIME, The Scrolls of Serenia, HAKD (Ho’z ASCII Anarchy Komputerz and Drugz), SURFPUNK Technical Journal, some of them like the legendary PHRACK and HEX40 magazines still exist today.

CYBERZINES are more important then ever – especially nowadays were it seems that all these original romantic values of the cyberpunk/space world are falling apart with corporate institutions dumbing everything down. CYBERSPACE is not facebook, twitter, LinkedIn or your google+ prison which scans every fart you make to sell you more useless stuff you don’t need for your consumer selfie “look at me I am so happy” lifestyle. CYBERSPACE extends all over the place, lightyears removed from your lolcatz and facebook likes…a transcendental hyperreality matrix from seedy little corners only visited by enlightened freaks to an infinite world of clandestine knowledge that extends into infinity without CONTROL

“Interrupted Breakfast At Loch Ness Shore” 2017 watercolors & fineliner – new artwork for the soon to be released cassette re-issue of the 2012 Loch Ness videogame soundtrack – remastered and with some extra unreleased tracks – All made on the mighty Commodore 64 SID sound chip. Also in the works remastered cassette re-issues of the 2008 Sammy Osmo Schaduw Horizon, Smackos Computer Day & 2016 UFOCUS albums. All on NIGHTWIND records!

The LO-FI cassette Spy Wave from Franz Falckenhaus returns on vinyl LP later this month on Giallo records. You can pre-order the vinyl LP here – or get it at your local dealer when its out soon.

“The obscure, previously CDR only Legowelt side project is full on VHS grained Cold War paranoia! Like if Fulci directed a Bond movie starring Udo Keir and Edwige Fenech. Shades of Fabio Frizzi, Minimal Synth and Aphex Twin. Culled from the three CDs originally released on Strange Life Records, it is with immense pride that we provide this collection for the first time on vinyl, lovingly remastered with exceptional new art by the one and only Eric A. Lee.”